Hey guys, I was poking around, and saw that my boot simlink was wiped. I thought that was the answer. But I now boot and get an error 16. grrrr..... Ian
Ian K wrote: >Heinz Sporn wrote: > > > >>Hi! >> >>Whenever someone has Grub problems it'd be a good idea to not only post >>grub.conf but more importantly infos about the disk layouts (and fstab >>to round it up). >> >> >> >> >> >OK, well I have a dual boot with Windows happening here as you >probably can tell. Its all on the one hard drive. > >Partition 1 (grub 0)(hda1) = Windows XP (NTFS) >Partition 2 (grub 1)(hda2) = Gentoo /boot (reiserfs) >Partition 3 (grub 2)(hda3) = Linux Swap >Partition 4 (grub 3)(hda4) = Gentoo / (Including /home) (reiserfs) > > > >>In your case there seems to be a couple of things to verify. >> >>I assume that Grub didn't come up with its initial dialog? >> >> >> >Yup, it showed nothing. > > > >>That usually >>means that it couldn't find /boot/grub/grub.conf using it's stage >>drivers in /boot/grub. >> >> >> >> >Alright, so would I just 'install' it again? This is not an initial >install of grub, how could it lose its configuration file? > > > >>With root (hd0,1) you force Grub to load an OS from the second partition >>of your first physical disk. Does /dev/hda4 reflect this situation? >> >>So in short: you have to tell Grub where to find /boot/grub/grub.conf >> >> >> >> >Well, as long as you can tell me how Im OK. > > > >>But for detailed forensics I'd need more intel. >> >>Regards >> >>spox >> >> >> >> >Thanks very much!! >Ian > > > >>Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 01:32 -0400 schrieb Ian K: >> >> >> >> >>>Hi there, >>>I am getting an "Error 15" >>>when grub loads. I booted in with a Gentoo Live CD >>>and got the file, and am including it. I think the >>>error 15 code is a syntax error, right? Here is >>>the file. Let me know if you see a problem. >>>Ian >>>PS> Please note I like to make things look good, >>>explaining the ..::..'s >>> >>>---------grub.conf--------- >>>default 2 >>>timeout 10 >>>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>> >>> >>> >>>title=.....::::: GentooLinux2.6.11-gentoo-r11 >>>:::::..... >>>root (hd0,1) >>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda4 >>> >>> >>> >>>title=.....:::::Gentoo >>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR2:::::..... >>>root (hd0,1) >>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-r11-IR2 root=/dev/hda4 >>> >>> >>>title=.....:::::Gentoo >>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR3:::::..... >>>root (hd0,1) >>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11-IR3 root=/dev/hda4 >>> >>> >>>title=.....:::::Gentoo Linux >>>2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2:::::..... >>>root (hd0,1) >>>kernel /K2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2 root=/dev/hda4 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>title=.....::::: Windows XP >>>:::::..... >>>rootnoverify (hd0,0) >>>makeactive >>>chainloader +1 >>> >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>>http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >
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